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“Euro-Islamic or WAHAB ARABIA?
by Danielle ·
Across our continent is now debate about the need to illuminate what has been termed a Euro-Islamic, an Islam which, applying more spirit than the letter of the Quranic message, is consistent with the values of democracy, human rights, gender equality and the separation between state and religion. In France and have to work and from the Government, in cooperation with Muslim associations are attempting to build a French Islam, compatible with the Republic. In Spain, in the light of cases such as the claims of the imam of Fuengirola, perhaps not so crazy to join the task and assign to the promotion of Spanish Islam part of the vast fortune over 2,400 million per year – all taxpayers or non-Christians, believers and agnostics, we pay to the Catholic Church.
It would provide public funds to publish books Muslims in the Iberian languages, train imams of mosques and Muslim religious teachers for students who wish to build mosques and cemeteries and worthy. All this, and that’s the key, in the spirit of reformist Islam, which in our case, could seek their own roots in the tolerance of Al Andalus. In this regard could be used the pact signed in 1992 by the government of Felipe González to the Spanish Muslim associations and never developed.
The alternative is grim: there is. And so there are mosques built in Spain and financed by Saudi Arabia, where he preached Wahhabist interpretations of Islam, and characters like the imam of Fuengirola, which was tried in Barcelona yesterday for publishing a book detailing how to beat their wives without leaving them marks. Since Islam has returned to Spain to win, I better not address people like this.
This construction of a Euro-Islamic could be, again, without further tighten the taxpayer, with only a fraction of what we spend in the Catholic Church. In this 25th anniversary of the Constitution would be a good way to really recognize the religious pluralism.
But the Aznar government is in Bahia, in Bahia, for example, the Iraq war. Or in the demonization of immigration, reduced to a mere police problem. What is needed instead is a state policy of integration, a policy aimed at the speedy and full identification of immigrants, from whatever source, with constitutional values. Building a Spanish Islam would be a fellow of the policy. Diversity is healthy, as long as everyone agrees common rules of play. The danger is understood multiculturalism as an archipelago of ghettos.
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Tags: Islam, Islam in europe, Spanish Muslim, terrorism, values of democracy, WAHAB ARABIA
